Cormorant Season?

[singleshot12]

So very true!   very well said

"not being edible is not a justifiable reason in my mind.  i think that WDFW just doesnt really want to improve the salmon and steelhead runs back to any sort of levels that would take them off of the in danger lists, but rather leave them as they are so when they do make an improvement they can say "look, see our methods are working"

Cormorant populations are so far down the list of things that are screwing the salmon population, though, that making a season for hunting them wouldn't do anything to bring back salmon.

The salmon populations are low because of habitat destruction, the dams, and (human) overfishing (including unregulated native harvesting). It doesn't take much thought to see that this is true - salmon populations were at an all time high hundreds of years ago. Presumably, with a more prevalent food source and even more breeding habitat, predatory bird populations were similarly much higher then as well. It's not like there was a huge hunting season on cormorants when the salmon were at their peak.

I'm not necessarily opposed to a season on them, but the idea that it would help significantly salmon populations is off the mark.

[haus]

Better go buy a 10 gauge......I've heard that them cormorants is tough to bring down. 

[haus]

I'm not necessarily opposed to a season on them, but the idea that it would help significantly salmon populations is off the mark.

Ya but it'd feel like you were making a difference when you killed one 


If they taught the hatchery fish not to swim an inch below the surface then maybe the birds wouldn't be livin the high life during every smolt migration. Or any predator for that matter. They need to turn the hatcheries into a survival boot camp instead of a park for rearing ignit yuppy fish. I recall readin somethin' bout the Yakima's experimenting with such methods at one of their hatcheries. Was few years back though. anyone else? 

[h2ofowlr]

I would consider them to have a large impact on the salmon runs.  When they can eat 30 plus smolt a day.  You have numbers over the 20k mark at the mouth of the CR.  Those birds hammer on the fish.

[duckmen1]

what about twenty comerants on a lake destroying the trout that wdfw just stocked
seen them eat trout as large as 14 inches and they each eat a ton of them a day
small lakes that don't get stocked hevily get wiped clean before people can catch them
when they say its a put in take fishery i think they mean for the comerants

[Whitenuckles]

 Count me in on the hitman list!

[Curly]

Cormarants are pretty easy to take out with a well placed headshot from a .22 cal pellet gun.  Someone told me so anyway.

[bobcat]

22 CB's work good too.